Editorial
Pinching and Pleasing
The game of democracy as played by successive governments of the world’s largest in its category, purely judged by its headcount far in excess of any other country enjoying the privilege of…
25 Feb 2019 · 2 min read
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Prosperous people – Plastic Partnership
Having taken to the use of products made of plastic in their multiple avatars over several decades, the world is currently waging a losing war against the offending material. After reaching the…
23 Feb 2019 · 2 min read
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Prosperity amidst poverty
The saying, “It is not he who doesn’t have wealth that is poor, but it is he who desires more that is poor,” as a philosophy of life may neither go down…
22 Feb 2019 · 2 min read
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Elusive electricity
Explaining the universally familiar term electricity as “The set of physical phenomena associated with the presence and motion of matter that has a property of electric charge” may not lead to either…
21 Feb 2019 · 2 min read
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Dealing with diversity
The slogan that public speakers took fascination to say with pride that society used to hear until not too long ago, namely unity in diversity, applied to the land’s masses, seems to…
20 Feb 2019 · 2 min read
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Dependent Democracy
The nation’s economic health is tied closely with issues of facing threats to its sovereignty from two hostile neighbouring countries and, in addition increasing shortfall in natural resources (fossil fuel, coal and…
19 Feb 2019 · 2 min read
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Sustaining secular status
The most obvious casualty of life nowadays seems to be harmony among nations and their populations across the world, given the reports in the columns of dailies overflowing with details of misdemeanour…
18 Feb 2019 · 2 min read
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Thank You
It was this day, nay this very evening, 41 years ago that Star of Mysore was born in this city as an Evening English Newspaper. Happily it continues to be your favourite…
16 Feb 2019 · 2 min read
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Enabling evolution
The age of Planet Earth has been estimated at about 4.5 billion (4,500 crore) years through methods employed by chemists. The multitude of life forms, particularly flora and fauna, hosted by soil,…
15 Feb 2019 · 2 min read
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March of Mysuru
Mysuru’s residents learnt with surprise not too long ago that the city was bestowed the tag of India’s cleanest city. Earning the same rating second time in a row was no less…
14 Feb 2019 · 2 min read
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Mass in a mess
Just three recurring events seem to be bringing the nation’s masses together in a passing show of solidarity that vanishes into thin air no sooner than the events fold up. Holding back…
12 Feb 2019 · 2 min read
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Surfeit of jobs, soaring joblessness
The postulate that the nation’s economy in monetary terms continues to be wearing a smile entirely due to sustained index of industrial production marked by unprecedented opportunities to the youth in economically…
11 Feb 2019 · 2 min read
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Building broken backbone
Occasions for celebrating various landmark events on national scale, particularly the country’s Independence Day and Republic Day seem to be the favoured choice of public speakers of different backgrounds in general and…
9 Feb 2019 · 2 min read
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Prioritising Priorities
Arranging the multitude of problems the country is beset with and also the actions for their solutions in their order of importance is all what prioritisation is about. The successive governments vested…
8 Feb 2019 · 2 min read
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Bouquets and Brickbats
Presenting the country’s budget in the Parliament for approval of the august house may be treated by the Finance Minister either as a serious exercise or a mere annual routine. But, for…
7 Feb 2019 · 2 min read
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Mysurean-friendly Mysuru
The fascinating description of Mysore as the City of Palaces witnessed a change in its identity itself to Mysuru not too long ago. The city’s name as Heritage City, appearing in the…
6 Feb 2019 · 2 min read
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To raze or not to raze?
The issues that are bestowed attention by the administration, on and off, and generate reactions from various quarters of the land’s literati, sometimes vociferously, seem to be keeping both sides engaged, happily…
5 Feb 2019 · 2 min read
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Between the devil and the deep sea
Given the tally of the desirables and, more importantly the undesirables on a number of counts, specially the sharply changing profiles of the country in general and the elected representatives of the…
4 Feb 2019 · 2 min read
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Overcrowding in India, pot calling the kettle black
Media coverage of the various matters relating to the country’s forests and their denizens, close to the heart of nature lovers, seems to have got stumped by reports of criminal acts by…
2 Feb 2019 · 2 min read
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Much ado about nothing
One of the characters in the opera titled Much Ado About Nothing, attributed to the famed playwright William Shakespeare (1564-1616), published in 1598, is portrayed as a clever man given to cracking…
1 Feb 2019 · 2 min read
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Brain-brawn bond
Thanks to the myriad products owing their design and emerging to arrest the attention of people in all walks of life in our times, particularly easy accessibility to comfort-loving urbanites, physical action…
31 Jan 2019 · 2 min read
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Temptingly tasty; tidy?
Aficionados of Mysuru City Corporation had taken a couple of years ago the laudable initiative to facilitate the rapidly expanding virtual army of footpath mobile canteen operators across the city’s 65 Wards,…
30 Jan 2019 · 2 min read
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Public research for public good
Action relating to embarking upon any research programme, funded particularly by grants sourced to government, seems to be driven by the aim of getting the coveted doctorate degree, preferably from a University…
29 Jan 2019 · 2 min read
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Wherewithal Worries
Call it a paradox or the proverbial theatre of the absurd, while the top brass in the government at the Centre is presenting a shining image of the nation with unalloyed glee…
28 Jan 2019 · 1 min read